KSO bandh disrupts vehicular movement along Imphal-Moreh highway
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Chandel, November 14 2015 :
Vehicular movement along the Imphal�Moreh section of National Highway (NH) 102 came to a grinding halt on Saturday due to the indefinite bandh imposed by Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO) Tengnoupal Block.
The indefinite bandh was imposed in protest against shifting of Diploma in Elementary Education (D El Ed) II year Examination Centre for Tengnoupal BRC Study Centre of IGNOU outside the District.
Since 6 am in the morning, supporters enforced the indefinite bandh and blocked the Imphal-Moreh road in Tengnoupal prohibiting vehicular movement along the section of NH-102 .
However, vehicles and passengers passing the stretch in connection with religious events and vehicles carrying patients were exempted from the purview of the bandh.
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KSO Tengnoupal Block President Daniel Mate said that the indefinite bandh was imposed in protest against shifting of the Examination Centre outside the District.
Earlier, the indefinite bandh was called from November 12 but it was temporarily lifted till November 13 in view of the Ningol Chakouba Festival, he said.
Mate also maintained that the examination centre of the Tengnoupal BRC IGNOU Study Centre for D El Ed first year Examination was also shifted outside the district last year by the Regional Director of IGNOU Imphal.
The centre was later relocated at United College, Lambung in Chandel District after launching a strong protest.
He alleged this year too, the Regional Director "intentionally shifted" the examination centre at Lamding Model H/S in Thoubal District despite filling up the Examination Centre Code 1713 (United College, Lambung) in the examination form by the students of the Tengnoupal BRC Centre Centre for his own interests.
Mate further maintained that the students' body will continue to impose the bandh along the Imphal-Moreh highway indefinitely and will also intensify the stir until the responsible authority relocates the same examination centre within the district.